José García Villa
José García Villa (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a
Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the
National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by
Conrad Aiken. He is known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rhyme scheme" in writing
poetry, as well as the extensive use of punctuation marks—especially
commas, which made him known as the ''Comma Poet''. He used the pen name ''Doveglion'' (derived from "
Dove,
Eagle,
Lion"), based on the characters he derived from his own works. These animals were also explored by another poet,
E. E. Cummings, in "Doveglion, Adventures in Value", a poem dedicated to Villa.
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